there's no defense except all the errors made

Dear child, I only did to you what the sparrow did to you; I am old when it is fashionable to be young; I cry when it is fashionable to laugh. I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love.

A spark can set a whole forest on fire. Just a spark. Save it.

Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.

I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.

the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them

There still might be a place for us somewhere.